ProQuest Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,600 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews.[Details]

Covers sociological topics in fields such as anthropology, economics, education, medicine, community development, philosophy, demography, political science, and social psychology. Journals published by sociological associations, groups, faculties and institutes, and periodicals containing the term "sociology" in their titles are abstracted fully.[Details]

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Provides access to current bibliographic information and cited references from the journal literature in the physical and social sciences. Search by article title word, journal title, author, cited author or reference, or address word (e.g. author's institution). Coverage begins 1956 to present.[Details]

General scholarly legal database with current U.S., foreign and international law, law review articles, legal classics and historical documents. Provides fully-searchable and image-based text of over 500 law journals, Supreme Court Reports, Treaties in Force, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (1977-2003) and the Federal Register (1936-1994).[Details]

Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Researcher report offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. Each CQ Researcher report is based on a common structure: overview, background, current situation, pro/con section, special focus, chronology, bibliography and next step.[Details]

The most comprehensive ABI/INFORM™ database, this comprises ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. The database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals, country-and industry-focused reports.[Details]

The Sentencing Project is a national organization working for a fair and effective criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing law and practice, and alternatives to incarceration.
Includes publications such as Facts about Prisons and Prisoners as well as detailed reports based on primary research and an interactive map with state-level criminal justice data.[Details]

Data & Statistics

Crime in the United States (Uniform Crime Report - FBI)Crime in the United States (CIUS) is an annual publication in which the FBI compiles volume and rate of crime offenses for the nation, the states, and individual agencies. This report also includes arrest, clearance, and law enforcement employee data.[Details]

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) offers several time series and other types of aggregate data that consist mainly of raw data derived from surveys, censuses and administrative records. The data holdings contain studies and files that cover a wide range of social science areas such as population, economics, education, health, social and political behavior, social and political attitudes, history, crime, aging, and substance abuse. Click here for searching tips.[Details]

Bureau of Justice StatisticsFederal crime statistics on a wide variety of subjects from crime and victims, to criminal offenders and courts and sentencing.
Data sets for analysis available online.[Details]

Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970A compendium of statistics from over 1000 sources last updated in 1975 and has been expanded to include over 37,000 data series. Topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America are each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field. The fully searchable and downloadable edition will permit users to graph individual tables and create customized tables and spreadsheets reflecting their own areas of interest.[Details]

Statistical Insight (ProQuest)Indexing and abstracting (with select full text from 2007) of statistical resources from U.S. state government, business and research institute statistical publications. Tables for U.S. government and business reports.[Details]

Roper Center for Public Opinion ResearchFirst-time users must register. The Roper Center has a large archive of public opinion information. It contains nearly 500,000 questions and responses from national public opinion surveys going back to 1935. Among the many survey sources are Gallup, Harris, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC. The archive includes full datasets required to conduct bivariate and multivariate analyses using RoperExpress.[Details]

Data.govData.gov increases the ability of the public to easily find, download, and use datasets that are generated and held by the Federal Government. Data.gov provides descriptions of the Federal datasets (metadata), information about how to access the datasets, and tools that leverage government datasets.[Details]

Biographies

American National Biography Online (Oxford)Biographical resource on more than 18,000 people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. The ANB Online features thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and powerful search capabilities. All articles originally included in the ANB Online were on biographical subjects who died before the end of 1995. Articles on important figures who have died since 1995 are being added in quarterly updates.[Details]

Historical New York Times: 1851-2009 (ProQuest)The New York Times is a unique full-image archive that brings you the entire historical run of The New York Times, in-depth coverage of science and politics. It offers complete coverage from 1851 to the present with the exception of the most current two years. Includes classified ads, comics and cartoons, photos, maps, graphics, etc., editorials and commentary.[Details]

Encyclopedia of Social TheoryThe Encyclopedia of Social Theory examines the global landscape of all the key theories and the theorists behind them, presenting them in the context needed to understand their strengths and weaknesses. Led by internationally renowned scholar George Ritzer, the Encyclopedia of Social Theory draws together a team of more than 200 international scholars covering the developments, achievements, and prospects of social theory from its inception in the 18th century to the present.

Books

WorldCat (OCLC)WorldCat is a catalog of library collections worldwide. WorldCat highlights publications available at Villanova University. Other items can be requested via an inter-library loan request form.WorldCat Step-by-Step is a self-paced interactive tutorial for students new to this resource.[Details]

Dissertations and Theses Global (ProQuest)A comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses with over 2.4 million dissertations and theses included from around the world.The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637, and more than 65,000 new citations are added to the database every year. Where available, PQDT provides 24 Page Previews of dissertations and theses. In addition, nearly one million are available for download in PDF format. (Digital dissertations and theses are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be Native PDF, some PDF Image).[Details]

Canadian journal of criminologyVia GaleGroup InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP: Full Text
Available from 1993 until 2002.
Via GaleGroup InfoTrac OneFile: Full Text
Available from 2001 until 2002.[Details]

American Journal of Criminal LawVia GaleGroup InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP: Full Text
Available from 1994.
Via GaleGroup InfoTrac OneFile: Full Text
Available from 2001.
Via Proquest Periodical Abstracts Research II: Full Text
Available from 1997.[Details]

American Criminal Law ReviewVia GaleGroup InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP: Full Text
Available from 1994.
Via GaleGroup InfoTrac OneFile: Full Text
Available from 2001.
Via Proquest Periodical Abstracts Research II: Full Text
Available from 1997.[Details]

British journal of criminologyVia GaleGroup InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP: Full Text
Available from 1992 until 1998.
Via Oxford Journals: Full Text
Available from 1998 volume: 38 issue: 4.
Via Proquest Periodical Abstracts Research II: Full Text
Available from 1997.
Most recent 1 year(s) not available.[Details]

Crime, Law, and Social ChangeVia Proquest ABI/INFORM Global: Full Text
Available from 1999.
Most recent 1 year(s) not available.
Via Proquest Periodical Abstracts Research II: Full Text
Available from 1999.
Most recent 1 year(s) not available.
Via Springer Standard Collection: Full Text
Available from 1998 volume: 29 issue: 1.[Details]

Journal of Criminal Law & CriminologyVia GaleGroup InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP: Full Text
Available from 1993.
Via GaleGroup InfoTrac OneFile: Full Text
Available from 2001.
Via Hein Online: Full Text
Available from 1910 volume: 1 until 2003 volume: 93.
Via JSTOR Complete: Full Text
Available from 1973 until 2002.
Via Proquest Periodical Abstracts Research II: Full Text
Available from 1994.[Details]